Definitions for rotten

rotten rot·ten

Spelling: [rot-n]
IPA: /ˈrɒt n/

Rotten is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in rotten (enortt).

Definitions for rotten

adjective

  1. decomposing or decaying; putrid; tainted, foul, or bad-smelling.
  2. corrupt or morally offensive.
  3. wretchedly bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory; miserable:
  4. contemptible; despicable:
  5. (of soil, rocks, etc.) soft, yielding, or friable as the result of decomposition.
  6. Australian Slang. drunk.

Origin of rotten

1175-1225; Middle English roten Old Norse rotinn, past participle of an unrecorded verb meaning “to rot”

Examples for rotten

Fittingly to that point, its rotten Tomato score (as of Tuesday evening) was a flat 50 percent.

Which to me, after the initial explosion of the Sex Pistols, always made rotten kind of boring.

Even the best of them were rotten to the core, and but mere adventurers.

There ain't a rotten knot in it from butt to finish, and mighty few of any other kind.

It sheared off heads so many, that it, and the ground it most polluted, were a rotten red.

Yeonmi had been hospitalized at the time for a stomach illness, likely from her diet of rotten potatoes.

She was of about two hundred tons burthen, but must have-been old and rotten.

They know this is a rotten deal and they are demoralized, running faster and faster with no hope of catching up.

It has grown from a rotten root—striving to replace human judgment with detailed dictates.

But he took me to his own house for a glass of sherry and a biscuit, and there it wasn't so rotten.

Word Value for rotten
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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